"What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?"

-- Julian Barnes

#Memories Quotes

“Donâ€™t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.”
“The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.”
“He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.”
“With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.”
“In England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.”
“I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.”
“Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.”
“Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.”

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